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Date:      Wed, 25 May 2011 11:55:30 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Janne Snabb <snabb@epipe.com>
To:        Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Some success, some questions
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1105251148220.62994@tiktik.epipe.com>
In-Reply-To: <1306253763.3340.9.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 24 May 2011, Sean Bruno wrote:

> I've installed a netbsd-current dom0 and the 3.3.2 xen hypervisor on

Why such an old version? Wouldn't it make sense to use 4.1?

> 1.  How do I switch the networking vif entry to use the netfront xn0
> driver instead of emulating a e1000?

Change:

builder='hvm'

to:

builder='linux'

Note that you need to define the kernel also and load it from dom0
(unless you are using some PV capable loader which understands
FreeBSD file systems... I don't know if such a thing exists & works).

--
Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications
snabb@epipe.com - http://epipe.com/



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